1.   Instead, strong solar heating creates small hot spots that produce rising columns of air, which lead to thundershowers of only a few miles wide.

2.   Strong solar heating will be the catalyst for a broken band of potent thunderstorms late Sunday from central Kansas to western Texas.

3.   Strong heating by the sun will promote afternoon showers and thunderstorms, especially over the mountains.

4.   Strong daytime heating leads to invisible updrafts, precursors of desert storms.

5.   Strong solar heating leads to invisible updrafts, precursors of desert storms.

6.   Unlike many storms, these were not energized by strong solar heating.